When we get together, we eventually part ways, and life is a series of ups and downs.
In the long river of time, there seems to be a series of ferries with willows hanging on them. During each period of time traveling backwards, people will leave the ship, others will board the ship to keep company, and then there will be new reunions and separations at the next ferry.
Just like the hard-working young man from Mud Bottle Alley, he had already left the crowd as soon as he got to the ferry.
At dawn, Li Er's family of three had already prepared their luggage and said goodbye to the group at the foot of Donghua Mountain. Compared with the first time he separated from his relatives in his hometown town, Li Huai was no longer heartless this time.
You will only feel that you are no longer restrained and can eat candied haws and chicken drumsticks all day long, but you will feel a little more melancholy. After all, your child has grown up.
Li Baoping, Lin Shouyi, Yu Lu, thank you, and the handsome young Cui Dongshan all came to see me off.
The woman's eyes were red and she didn't want to let go of Li Huai's hand. She was talking trivially about wearing more clothes in the cold weather and eating and drinking enough. Li Huai listened quietly. Li Er stood beside him innocently all the time.
After Li Liu straightened Li Huai's clothes, which were already new and neat, he turned back to look at the plaque of Shanya Academy. The girl was indifferent to the looking eyes of Xie Xie and Yu Lu, two peers.
The woman was finally willing to leave. As soon as she walked out, she was determined not to look back. Li Er patted Li Huai's head, smiled and followed his wife's footsteps. Li Liu patted his brother's shoulder, and then said to him.
Everyone gave a blessing and left slowly.
Li Huai lightly kicked Lin Shouyi, who was holding a letter in his sweaty palms. The stern young man shook his head, looked at the girl's back, and murmured: "Next time."
Li Huai didn't want to show his sadness in front of them, suppressed his sadness, found an interesting topic, and said with a smile: "Cui Dongshan, if you are Chen Pingan's student, we are all Mr. Qi's disciples, Bao
Ping also calls me Uncle Chen Pingan, how do you calculate your seniority with us?"
Cui Dongshan put his hands behind his back, with the jade tree facing the wind, and said proudly: "I am the founder of my husband's disciple. I have a very high seniority and am one hundred and eighty thousand miles higher than this Donghua Mountain."
Li Huai was stunned for a moment, "Is it possible that I have to call you Senior Brother?"
"Eldest brother?"
Cui Dongshan suddenly became anxious, "Your whole family is a senior brother! I don't want to be a senior brother. You can call me whatever you want."
Li Huai was a little confused, "Then I call you little senior brother? It's a bit hard to pronounce."
Cui Dongshan's eyes lit up, "Hello, little senior brother. I respect my elder brother and show kindness. From now on, you can call me little senior brother. Yu Lu, thank you. From today on, you are no exception. There is no need to call me young master. Too
Shengfen, just follow Baoping and the others and call me little senior brother."
Li Baoping snorted coldly: "I didn't agree!"
The little girl in the red cotton jacket rushed out of the archway, and Li Huai shouted: "Li Baoping, we have classes later!"
"I have already written the article for punishment last night. What are you afraid of! I want to walk around here alone so that I can take my little uncle shopping later." Li Baoping raised his head high and ran all the way, chasing the blue sky.
A flock of pigeons flew across the sky, and the whistles of pigeons echoed one after another, ringing melodiously and clearly throughout the capital city of the Sui Dynasty.
Li Huai raised his voice and shouted: "Then take me with you."
Li Baoping turned a deaf ear. Compared to her slender figure far away from the academy archway, the little girl's thoughts were thousands of miles away.
————
Having reached a mountain on the border of Huangting Kingdom, Chen Pingan was washing his face by the mountain stream.
Unlike the girl in pink skirt who only carried someone else's book box, the boy in Tsing Yi was carrying a square-inch item and always had a lot of strange things. At first, he didn't think about showing off anything in front of the master, but later he showed off to the snake gallstone.
He was so worried about it that he thought about it so much every day that he began to take it out and beg Chen Pingan to give him snake gallstones in exchange for his treasure.
Just like this, the boy in Tsing Yi took out a bunch of small bottles with the same pattern, squatted next to Chen Pingan, and explained to the old man the fun of these bottles. He pulled out the stopper of one of the pink-green porcelain bottles and poured it into the stream.
After pouring it, a large piece of soft moonlight soon flowed from the porcelain vase and fell on the stream, like a dream.
The boy in green said with a smile: "Sir, it looks good. This is the Moon Flower Vase that practitioners like very much. In addition, there are also Yunxia Vase and Sunlight Vase, which are specially used to collect the clouds of clouds from the Five Mountains.
, the glory of the sun and the moon, etc., the spiritual energy contained in them is not much. It is naturally not as rich and abundant as the long and thin water of those caves and paradises, but it is no match for the beauty of the scenery pouring out of these bottles. What do you think, sir?"
Chen Ping'an was indeed a little shocked. Among the lush mountains and forests, it was still slightly dark in broad daylight. Looking at the moonlight slowly flowing on the stream, he really felt that there was indeed everything in the world.
The boy in Tsing Yi said seductively: "It would be unkind to exchange a small bottle for the master's snake gallstone. I also have three bottles here that are collectively called the Liang Bottle. The name comes from 'the lingering sound lingers around the beam for three days,' and they are all full.
There are all kinds of beautiful natural sounds in the world, such as the croaking frog in this bottle, the sound of the tide in this bottle, and the sound of pine trees in this mountain. Master, if you think about it, open one of the bottles when you sleep,
Next to the pillow is the sound of the tide. How comfortable it is. Don't you feel excited? I have so many precious bottles, so I will exchange them with you for a snake gallstone! Just exchange for one! Master, as long as you nod, these seven or eight bottles will be yours immediately.
Well, if you don’t do this kind of business, you will be struck by five thunders from heaven..."
Chen Ping'an silently calculated the wealth of his family in the town and found that there were still many snake gallstones of excellent quality. He nodded and said with a smile: "Okay."
The girl in pink skirt waved her hands vigorously and winked at her master, trying to dissuade Chen Pingan from agreeing to the deal.
The boy in green pushed the bottle to Chen Ping'an, jumping up and down with joy. He stretched out two fingers to the girl in pink skirt and said arrogantly: "One more than you. Now I am one level higher than you. Here we are."
In my hometown, if I eat a stone, I will reach two more realms than a silly girl like you. When the time comes, you should be wiser and don’t stay with me and embarrass my people. My little book boy is enough for me. Where is the need?
What stupid maid..."
The girl in the pink skirt pouted her lips and wrinkled her pink face, as if a storm was coming.
Chen Pingan said helplessly: "If you bully her again, I will regret it."
The boy in green immediately coughed and said to her seriously: "In the future, you have to take care of the master's food, clothing, housing and transportation, do you know? For example, after eating that snake gallstone, he will quickly become the figure and appearance of a yellow flower girl. By then, the master will be full of energy and vitality.
You will feel that the night is long, so you should take the initiative to warm the bed..."
Chen Ping'an put down the rare vials of different materials and pointed a chestnut at the head of the boy in Tsing Yi, "Stop talking nonsense here."
The kid dressed in Tsing Yi bowed pretendingly and said, "The master has taught me a lesson."
Chen Pingan squatted on the stone by the stream again, took out a piece of dry biscuit, chewed it, and asked casually: "Do you know what the Dragon King Basket is?"
The two little guys turned pale at the same time, and the boy in green was even more stiff. Not to mention the gag, he couldn't even walk.
The girl in the pink skirt said cautiously: "I have seen records in ancient books that as long as the Qi practitioner throws it into the river, the dragon can be captured. The most terrifying thing is that the dragon belongs to the genus of the dragon. It originally has a geographical advantage in the water.
, even if the opponent is a qi practitioner who is one or two levels higher than us, we will definitely not suffer a loss, but if the opponent has the Dragon King Basket, even if the level is one or two levels lower than ours, we can still capture it without any help."
The boy in Tsing Yi subconsciously took a few steps away from Chen Pingan and squatted far away, "It's not that easy. Once you are caught in the Dragon King's basket, it will be no better than a mortal being in a frying pan. You will suffer the pain of being cut into pieces all the time. This is
The secret of the largest sect in the ancient Shu Kingdom is not passed on. They specialize in weaving Dragon King baskets and selling them to those Qi practitioners who come from afar to try to capture our species."
His voice trembled, he clenched his fist and shook it, "A Dragon King basket of this size can catch me."
Chen Pingan stretched out his hands and gestured in front of himself, "What if it is this big?"
Now, not to mention the boy in green who knew the power of Dragon King Basket, even the girl in pink skirt was too scared to speak.
The kid in green clothes said with a mournful face: "Master, let alone seeing it before, I have never heard of such a big Dragon King basket. You don't have one, do you?"
He resisted the urge to get a second snake gallstone and said tentatively: "If there really is such an exaggerated Dragon King's basket, even if you are an ancestor who has been transformed into a dragon for thousands of years, you should just accept your fate. Master, don't you think that's the case?
The pile of bottles actually doesn’t look good? It’s okay, I just keep it in my hands to play with. If you really don’t like it, just return it to me when you get to your hometown. As for the snake gallstone, I will give it to you depending on your mood..."
Chen Ping'an couldn't laugh or cry and said: "I don't have the Dragon King Basket. Even if I do, you don't have to worry about anything."
No wonder Prince Gao Xuan of the Sui Dynasty felt very sorry after buying the golden carp and the Dragon King Basket. In addition to giving a bag of gold and copper coins, he also wanted to express his gratitude in the capital of the Sui Dynasty this time.
At that time, when he met the man selling fish in a small town, Chen Pingan could tell at a glance that something was unusual. How could the carp still be alive and kicking after being offshore for so long? But if there was really no money and precarious days, where could he go?
Do you dare to spend money as you like? After becoming a kiln worker, you can still save some copper coins. Chen Pingan has never had any extra expenses. It is already extremely difficult to deal with firewood, rice, oil and salt.
Second, he was intercepted halfway by Gao Xuan and the old man.
Chen Ping'an threw a stone into the stream. The young man was a little sad at the moment. It was not that he had lost a lot of blessings and opportunities, but that he felt that several mountains of gold and silver had passed him by.
So in the final analysis, I still care about money.
In fact, Chen Ping'an didn't know that the man was Li Huai's father, Li Er, one of Old Man Yang's apprentices. At that time, Li Er was already a peak martial artist in the ninth realm of martial arts. Unlike the gatekeeper who was responsible for receiving gold essence and copper coins,
Li Er had a very good impression of Chen Pingan. As for why Li Er did not directly give Chen Pingan as a gift at that time, he was very particular about it. Master Yang, a person on this path, has always respected the word "justice", so Li Er casually reported it at that time.
I set a price in order to bargain with the boy from Mud Bottle Alley and make it appear more real.
It was a pity that a prince of the Sui Dynasty's Gao family came out halfway. Li Er, who had already broken the rules, suddenly became alert and did not dare to force Chen Ping'an to have such great luck. Afterwards, Old Man Yang also reprimanded Li Er and told him
He told a cruel truth. If Chen Ping'an really accepted the fish basket and carp, it would be doubtful whether he could leave the town alive.
There are these undercurrents surging in the small town, and Chen Pingan has not yet learned everything.
On the road, blessings and misfortunes always depend on each other. No one can tell in a short period of time whether one incident will make things worse for friends or bring disaster to enemies.
The three of them went back on the road and stayed at the top of the mountain. Although Chen Pingan no longer needed to keep vigil, Chen Pingan was still used to sleeping late after walking and setting up stakes, and stayed by the bonfire for a while before going to bed.
Late at night, the top of the mountain is completely silent.
Beside the bonfire, the boy in green clothes added more firewood to the fire, and raised his fingers to the girl in pink skirt, "Silly girl, come here."
The girl leaned against the bookcase left by Cui Dongshan in the distance and shook her head vigorously, "I don't."
To be continued...